Claire Catherine Danes (born on April 12, 1979) is a Golden Globe
Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated American film, television,
and theater actress most known for the television series, My
So-Called Life, and the films, Romeo + Juliet, Terminator 3: Rise of
the Machines and Stardust. In 2002, Danes starred opposite Susan
Sarandon and Kieran Culkin in Igby Goes Down. She later co-starred
as Meryl Streep's daughter in the Oscar-nominated, The Hours, with
Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore, and Ed Harris. The following year,
she was cast in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, followed with
Stage Beauty in 2004. She earned critical acclaim in 2005 when she
starred in Steve Martin's Shopgirl alongside Martin and Jason
Schwartzman, and in The Family Stone opposite Sarah Jessica Parker
and Diane Keaton. In 2007, Danes appeared in the fantasy epic
Stardust, which she described as a "classic model of romantic
comedy", opposite Charlie Cox, Michelle Pfeiffer, Robert De Niro,
and Sienna Miller, and will appear in The Flock, opposite Richard
Gere. In March 2007, Danes appeared with Patrick Wilson in a
television commercial for Gap in which the pair dances to the song
"Anything You Can Do" from the musical Annie Get Your Gun. On
October 19, 2007, Danes made her Broadway debut in the revival of
George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, starring as Eliza Doolittle ...
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